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| | Civil War Treasures from The New-York Historical Society: About the Collection |
 | | It is one of seventeen libraries qualified to participate in the Independent Research Libraries Association, which consists of institutions that "house collections of national or international significance that are capable of supporting sustained research in a variety of interrelated subjects and of attracting scholars from all over the world." |
 | | Two hundred years of gathering research materials has allowed the society to develop collections which are rich, deep, and diverse, covering the 400 year period of the American experience in general and the history of the New York region in particular. |
 | | The library collection encompasses a breadth of formats: printed books and pamphlets, manuscripts, which include diaries, letters, and business records, maps and atlases, photographs, prints, architectural drawings, advertising art, newspapers with a special concentration on pre-1820 titles, broadsides, sheet music, scrapbooks, menus, and an unparalleled variety of other ephemera. |
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